Separating a Hash type from Object

[zwetan]

On 5/7/07, Peter Hall <peter.hall at memorphic.com> wrote:
> Zwetan,
> This is what we are talking about. But the es4 spec cannot make
> assumptions about an implementation's GC, which may (or may not) be
> necessary - at least for weak keys - but it's getting late in the game
> to have to find that out. That's a summary, but search the list
> archives...
>
> In general ES4 cannot take things, just because they have been
> implemented in Tamarin. ES4 is supposed to be
> implementation-independant. There are many factors that could make a
> feature harder or easier (or just more or less desirable) to implement
> in a given implementation - choice of GC seems to be a big factor in
> this instance, but there are plenty of others.
>

ok fair enougth, I was under the assumption that Tamarin will become
a de facto block for any ES4 implementation.

But what I was sugesting is merely add a predefined Dictionary class
as what have been done with the ByteArray class
http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/proposals/bytearray.html

cheers,
zwetan